Bronchoscopic confocal laser endomicroscopy for lung cancer diagnosis: Shining light on advanced needle techniques

Lung cancer is a global health concern and leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Diagnostic procedures such as bronchoscopy and endosonography regulary yield insufficient tissue due to inadequate needle positioning or sampling errors. The first part of the thesis focused on an emerging imaging technique called needle based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) to